X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B4CEFDE.8060808@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:55:42 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute) References: <4B4A868C DOT 20908 AT cygwin DOT com> <20100111102235 DOT GC14511 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4B4B78AF DOT 7030902 AT cygwin DOT com> <20100112164421 DOT GU14511 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4B4CC948 DOT 4030905 AT cygwin DOT com> ,<416096c61001121340r6e4915a0x23de360ee741d08d AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 01/12/2010 04:52 PM, sbremal AT hotmail DOT com wrote: > > Thanks! What way do you guys suggest to convert all existing symlinks to > the .lnk style? Complete reinstall with setup.exe? Hope there is a second > option... ;-) > > There are quite some hits for: find / -exec grep '!' {} \; Right. And 'find' would be the way to do it. But if you're going to change them, you're better off changing them to the Linux/Unix symlink from that end (same procedure though). Then the symlinks should be understood as simlinks on the server and the clients (uses MS's client). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple